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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2014-03-14 20:48:28 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-03-17 15:47:22 -0400 |
| commit | b6bacd550c33124ea76291bd84ac42c8d30767eb (patch) | |
| tree | 19a5fb4f432141125a0bbc16254f8e83b57f3645 /net/core | |
| parent | ff6076314339e079806d9d2f3de9c9b768e94db1 (diff) | |
netpoll: Don't drop all received packets.
Change the strategy of netpoll from dropping all packets received
during netpoll_poll_dev to calling napi poll with a budget of 0
(to avoid processing drivers rx queue), and to ignore packets received
with netif_rx (those will safely be placed on the backlog queue).
All of the netpoll supporting drivers have been reviewed to ensure
either thay use netif_rx or that a budget of 0 is supported by their
napi poll routine and that a budget of 0 will not process the drivers
rx queues.
Not dropping packets makes NETPOLL_RX_DROP unnecesary so it is removed.
npinfo->rx_flags is removed as rx_flags with just the NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED
flag becomes just a redundant mirror of list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np).
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/netpoll.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index ef83a2530e9..793dc04d2f1 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ static atomic_t trapped; DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(netpoll_srcu); #define USEC_PER_POLL 50 -#define NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED 1 -#define NETPOLL_RX_DROP 2 #define MAX_SKB_SIZE \ (sizeof(struct ethhdr) + \ @@ -193,7 +191,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) { const struct net_device_ops *ops; struct netpoll_info *ni = rcu_dereference_bh(dev->npinfo); - int budget = 16; + bool rx_processing = netpoll_rx_processing(ni); + int budget = rx_processing? 16 : 0; /* Don't do any rx activity if the dev_lock mutex is held * the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity @@ -207,8 +206,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) return; } - ni->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_DROP; - atomic_inc(&trapped); + if (rx_processing) + atomic_inc(&trapped); ops = dev->netdev_ops; if (!ops->ndo_poll_controller) { @@ -221,8 +220,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) poll_napi(dev, budget); - atomic_dec(&trapped); - ni->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_DROP; + if (rx_processing) + atomic_dec(&trapped); up(&ni->dev_lock); @@ -1050,7 +1049,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp) goto out; } - npinfo->rx_flags = 0; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&npinfo->rx_np); spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock); @@ -1076,7 +1074,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp) if (np->rx_skb_hook) { spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); - npinfo->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED; list_add_tail(&np->rx, &npinfo->rx_np); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); } @@ -1258,8 +1255,6 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np) if (!list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) { spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); list_del(&np->rx); - if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) - npinfo->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); } |